CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 233, 28 February 1885, Page 3

CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

Two unmitigated cads of the most pronounced type went through Newton last Tuesday. They were accompanied by two dogs, which Avere the most respectable of the company. The so-called men, seeing a harmless kitten basking in the sunshine on a doorstep, a short distance from the street, "sooled" their dogs on to the harmless animal, which was worried to death. The greatest cur of the four, a biped called in the animal kingdom a man, kicked the

little warm carcass of the kitten about the

premises. The master of the house arrived just a minute or so late, and the. over-grown larrikins escaped a leathering by a close shave. The neighbours, however, strongly advise him to take proceedings against the brutal slaughterers ot household pets in

Newton, and that a prosecution should be by the Society for the Protection of Animals, which might direct its attention to other the sufferings of other animals "besides ill-used horses. Inspector Goldie might turn his attention to the " dog nuisance" question, or there will perhaps be a great deal of wholesale poisoning in the district. At the risk of being thought dogmatical, it is my dogged opinion — and not on a cursory new either — that any cur or curs, whether on two legs or four, who indulge in cruelty as above, deserve not a catarrh, nor a fit of catalepsy, certainly not a catacomb, but a cat-o' -nine-tails.